Posted: Fri 01 Mar 2013, 12:46 Post_subject:
Only Quirky live CD works in old P2 PC with 152 MB RAMSub_title: Various other issues

I have an old IBM PC 333 Mhz with 152Mb Ram that dates back to 1999. I have given a generous swap partition of 512Mb on the 4.2Gb hard drive. Puppy Wary for older PCs gives kernel panic and crashes. Only Puppy Quirky Live CD works on this PC.

Following are the issues on this PC:
1. A20 Fail
This messge comes during boot before even grub loads. Keyboard was verified to be ok by using another KB. Even opened case and cleared dust. Bios was reset to defaults. Nothing Helped. Tried to install memtest from Puppy4, hoping it will install grub. This didn't happen. Due to A20 Fail grub4dos and grublegacy both fail to load on boot. It will be good to overcome this problem.

2. This PC doesnt play ogg or mps files it just sits there. However, sound is ok when I play burger king and it used to stream net radio before. However, I installed proxy and firewall, after this the streaming doesn't work also. ALSA config was tried but this didn't work as the drivers couldn't be found.

More Basic Related info.: Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.14 (i586) PCI Devices Host bridge Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5597 [SiS5582] ISA bridge Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] SiS85C503/5513 IDE interface Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5513 [IDE] USB Controller Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] USB 1.1 Controller Ethernet controller Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ Multimedia audio controller Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24/30 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] Serial controller Rockwell International HCF 56k Data/Fax Modem VGA compatible controller Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5597/5598/6326 VGA Questions: 1. How can I make Links browser the default in Puppy Linux (using Puppy Quirky 1.4) ? 2. Sound Problem This PC plays streaming music, net radio ok. However, it doesn't play sound files. I tried both mp3 and ogg vorbis. How can I get drivers for the sound card below: Multimedia audio controller Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24/30 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] 3. Playing Video Files This PC doesn't play video files. I tried to do a Video upgrade, it tried to get this file from ibiblio but failed saying link broken. It also said that I have the needed drivers, but getting this may help improve performance: Mesa-5.6.2-W5.pet I tried to look on the net for this but all links are old and don't exist. VGA compatible controller Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 5597/5598/6326 VGA Display Resolution 1024x768 pixels Vendor The X.Org Foundation Version 1.3.0 I was able to do 2 and 3 above with Win 98. I found install disks for this. However, Win98 has no support and being on net with it is real insecure. Hence, I prefer to use Linux for this.

Posted: Sat 02 Mar 2013, 19:19 Post_subject:
Re: Only Quirky live CD works in old P2 PC with 152 MB RAMSub_title: Various other issues

rvijay127 wrote:

I have an old IBM PC 333 Mhz with 152Mb Ram that dates back to 1999. I have given a generous swap partition of 512Mb on the 4.2Gb hard drive. Puppy Wary for older PCs gives kernel panic and crashes. Only Puppy Quirky Live CD works on this PC.

I tried to get the correct ALSA drivers and configure. Got the following error: # ./configure checking for gcc... no checking for cc... no checking for cl.exe... no configure: error: no acceptable C compiler found in $PATH See `config.log' for more details. # Link for the driver is as follows: ftp://ftp.alsa-project.org/pub/drive...0.22.1.tar.bz2

Also, for X, drivers are suggested here: http://www.winischhofer.net/linuxsispart4.shtml However, The version of X that I have on my system as per below is not in the above link. So not sure how to proceed here. # X -version X Window System Version 1.3.0 Release Date: 19 April 2007 X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0, Release 1.3 Build Operating System: UNKNOWN Current Operating System: Linux puppypc 2.6.31.14 #1 SMP Mon Oct 25 23:28:59 GMT-8 2010 i586 Build Date: 13 September 2010 Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org to make sure that you have the latest version. Module Loader present # _______